Shaping and switching of polychromatic light in arrays of periodically curved nonlinear waveguides

• Authors: Ivan Garanovich , Andrey Sukhorukov , Yuri Kivshar
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

We overview our recent theoretical results on spatio-spectral control, diffraction management, and broadband all-optical switching of polychromatic light in periodically curved one and two dimensional arrays of coupled optical waveguides. In particular, we show that polychromatic light beams and patterns produced by white-light and supercontinuum sources can experience wavelength-independent normal, anomalous, or zero diffraction in specially designed structures. We also demonstrate that in the nonlinear regime, it is possible to achieve broadband all-optical switching of polychromatic light in a directional waveguide coupler with special bending of the waveguide axes. Our results suggest novel opportunities for creation of all-optical logical gates and switches which can operate in a very broad frequency region, e.g., covering the entire visible spectrum.

Keywords

EN

diffraction management; all-optical switching; polychromatic light; photonic lattices; supercontinuum

Discipline

• 42.82.Et: Waveguides, couplers, and arrays(for fiber waveguides, see 42.81.Qb)
• 42.25.Fx: Diffraction and scattering
• 42.65.Jx: Beam trapping, self-focusing and defocusing; self-phase modulation
• 42.65.Tg: Optical solitons; nonlinear guided waves(for solitons in fibers, see 42.81.Dp)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Physics
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 593-602

Dates

published

1 - 9 - 2008

online

17 - 7 - 2008

Contributors

author

Ivan Garanovich

• Nonlinear Physics Centre and Centre for Ultra-high bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia

author

Andrey Sukhorukov

• Nonlinear Physics Centre and Centre for Ultra-high bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia

author

Yuri Kivshar

• Nonlinear Physics Centre and Centre for Ultra-high bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11534-008-0047-8